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- ↑ James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1805 edition), vol. 3, p. 314
- ↑ H. Weld Blundell, The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 530.
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